Article ; Online: The geometry of predication: a configurational derivation of the defining property of clause structure.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
2019 Volume 375, Issue 1791, Page(s) 20190310
Abstract: Predication is the fundamental grammatical relation defining clausal structures in all (and only) human languages. This notion is by definition compositional, since it consists of a link between a subject and a predicate. The central question addressed ... ...
Abstract | Predication is the fundamental grammatical relation defining clausal structures in all (and only) human languages. This notion is by definition compositional, since it consists of a link between a subject and a predicate. The central question addressed here is whether this traditional notion, which has never been dismissed ever since the canonical models of Ancient Greek linguistics, can be derived at a formal level from more abstract compositional algorithms. Capitalizing on predication in copular sentences, which allow factoring out non-essential aspects of this phenomenon, such as the morphological asymmetry between verbs and nouns, I propose a configurational approach to predication. This new approach is based on the notion of symmetry as derived by purely compositional mechanisms. Finally, I address some theoretical and empirical consequences of this generalization including those pertaining to neurolinguistics. This article is part of the theme issue 'Towards mechanistic models of meaning composition'. |
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MeSH term(s) | Comprehension ; Electrophysiological Phenomena ; Greece, Ancient ; Humans ; Language ; Linguistics ; Mental Processes ; Neurosciences ; Semantics ; Vocabulary |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2019-12-16 |
Publishing country | England |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 208382-6 |
ISSN | 1471-2970 ; 0080-4622 ; 0264-3839 ; 0962-8436 |
ISSN (online) | 1471-2970 |
ISSN | 0080-4622 ; 0264-3839 ; 0962-8436 |
DOI | 10.1098/rstb.2019.0310 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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